The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-09-24

uAoi' oHce salu 6nat he made
IL rule never to use in prayer any word
tnat mad come into the language since
the days Of QUEEN ELIZABETH.
The Mobile Register utters this trutb.
There should be no conflict between
science and religion. When a man is
learned in all the lore Of ancient and mod.
ern times, he still stands wondering upon
the shores of the inscrutabIe."
The probable cost of the proposed
Protestant cathedral, to be erected in
New York, is put at 100000. Five
per cent OF this sum has been given by a
few New Workers. The small remainder
Is expected to come within the next few
years.
I'm London pulpit" says PAXTON
HOOD, the LORD was RECENTLY addressed
thus: " Thou who alone hast the power
to say to us, absolve ter" SIT is remark
able" says PROFESSOR PORTER, show lit
tie OF starch or display Of any sort it takes
to spoil a prayer"
MIR. MAURICE THOMPSON objects to
ToLsToI and his theories. GAIL this hack.
ing of wealth." he says, land all this apos-
trophlzng OF poverty, is not in the spirit
OF Christ; it is the spirit of communism.
socialism and anarchy, under whose
heels all Christianity would be ground
into powder"
PROFESSOR TOWNSEND in paper in the
New York Advocate says: "We have
! heard the words "GoD ALMIGHTY"
hell" and "damnatlon;" pronounced with
such ntonation and emphasis that it was
olfhcult to distinguish between the pulpit
prayer and the street OATH" We might
suggest to PROFESSOR TOWNSEND, that
he recommend In his next paper thatmin-
isters forego the using of those terms
altogether.
THE growth of Universalism in Eng
land within the pale Of orthodox organi-
zations Is ssen I'D this statement of the
London Christian World, which we find
quoted in the Register: "We venture to
assert that not one-half of the clergy of
the Established Church now believe in
the eternity OF the punishment OF the
wicked, while vast number among the
ministers of the free churches believe
either in humiliation or the final restora.
ton of the wicked"
DR. NORMAN KERR, OF London, does
not say an intoxicated man is drunk" He
styles it IAN abnormal cerebral condition
experiencing dynamical and physical
disturbance of the brain and nerve func-
tlon. real departure from sound health,
which Is itself pathological state, with
In all probability its post norton equiva-
lent in hyperplasma of the neuroglia."
This is what's the matter with a great
many people, but they never knew it
until now. DR.. KERR makes it all plain.
The Salvation Army, remarks Balti-
more paper, may be band of cranks
and lunatics, but they are harmless
certainly are less injurious to a city or
country than the tough gangs which re-
vile and assault them. They are entitled
to worship God according to the dictates
OF their own consciences; and it is the
duty OF the authorities to protect them in
1t, just as much as to protect any other
church organization from interruption
and mob violence It is about time the
authorities we're awakening to thus fact
and dischargmg such duty intelligent
ly and diligently.
This is from the Congregationalist.
Let our readers substitute "Univ ersal-
| ists," and the advice is excellent for our
committees of fellowship. "Lay hands
suddenly on no man" is good advice al
ways for such committees: "C1ngrega.
tionalists cannot be too careful to have
nothing to do with minister who comes
out from another denomination with
charges against his character, and who
proposes to adopt our church policy.
Such man should first submit to a
searching examination from some proper
ly constituted tribunal, and be cleared,
or otherwise not expect to be received
into any new ecclesiastical fellowship"
CHARLES DUDLEY WARNER agrees with
GEORGE FREDERIC PARSONS in exclsim-
ing against the growth of materialism in
America, and particularly among the
young men. In recent lecture on edu-
cation he said: "We need to have our ed
ucation train young people so as to re-
ceive more integrity, purer public life,
and disposition to get the best out of
life, irrespective of material circum-
stances. The public school OF to-day has
shifted parental responsibility and more
and more teaches our young something
practical Our schools should keep
morals and mental discipline always in
view, and thus try to regain little rev.
ereDce in place of Yankee bumptious-
ness"
Mr.. BANCROFT, the historian, said this
in answer to a question of whether his
life-work was at an end: "a man who is
in sight of ninety can promise the world
nothing. 1 have left mortal affairs be.
hind me. All my thoughts are on eter-
nifty. But, however useful my life has
been-and, without pride, think can
say that 1 have done my share of good
at least, it has been one of hard work. II,
as some people say, am or was genius,
my genius-which, by the way, is word
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